Management Accountant

Boral; Sydney; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Boral is seeking a Management Accountant for its NSW Concrete businesses (Metro, Regional and Concrite). You’ll close the month accurately, explain the result to non-finance stakeholders and provide actionable recommendations.

Regular site presence and strong ERP/Excel skills are essential. You’ll report to the Commercial Finance Manager and have a clear path into senior commercial finance roles across our national business.

Qualifications

• CA or CPA qualified
• Experience in a large, well-established business
• Construction or heavy industry background preferred
• Confident with a major ERP and strong Excel skills
• Able to explain results to non-finance stakeholders
• Willingness to travel to operational sites

Responsibilities

• Deliver month-end close, reporting and variance analysis
• Build budgets, forecasts and rolling cash/volume outlooks
• Report and interpret the balanced scorecard for the unit
• Analyze costs, production volumes, margins and overheads
• Value and reconcile inventory with operations
• Prepare capital business cases and track benefits after approval
• Review maintenance and contractor spend with site leaders
• Support coaching area managers on the numbers they own
• Strengthen controls, reconciliations and month-end discipline

Skills

Excel

ERP systems

Communication

Education

CA or CPA qualification

Tools

ERP software

Job description

Full visibility of a business unit P&L, not one narrow slice of it

Report to the Commercial Finance Manager

A seat at the table with operations, not a back-office reporting role

Regular time on site, so you see what drives costs

A clear path into senior commercial finance roles across our national business

The role

You’ll be the Management Accountant for our NSW Concrete businesses including Metro, Regional and Concrite. That means closing the month accurately, then explaining what the result means and what to do about it.

• Deliver month-end close, reporting and variance analysis
• Build budgets, forecasts and rolling cash and volume outlooks
• Report and interpret the balanced scorecard for the business unit
• Analyse costs, production volumes, margin and overheads
• Value and reconcile inventory with operations
• Prepare capital business cases and track benefits after approval
• Review maintenance and contractor spend with site leaders
• Support in coaching area managers on the numbers they own
• Strengthen controls, reconciliations and month-end discipline

What we’re looking for

• CA or CPA qualified
• A background in a large, well-established business
• Ideally that experience comes from construction or heavy industry
• Confident with a major ERP and strong in Excel
• Able to explain a result plainly to people who don’t work in finance
• Comfortable working across a complex organisation to get answers
• Willingness to travel to operational sites

About Boral

Boral is the largest vertically-integrated construction materials company in Australia. Our network includes prized quarry and cement infrastructure, bitumen, construction materials recycling, asphalt and concrete batching operations. We employ about 9,000 employees and contractors across our operations that span more than 360 sites nation-wide. For more than 80 years we’ve been building something great in Australia - rarely a day goes by that you wouldn’t pass one of our sites or trucks, enter a building, use a road, bridge, tunnel, footpath or other critical infrastructure that our people and products have helped enable.

Boral is committed to a diverse working environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All suitable applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability.